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Revealed: 15 most expensive UK cities to raise a family - is yours on the list?

New research has revealed the most expensive (as well as the most affordable) cities in which to raise a family

GoodToKnow · Aug 19, 2023

Le Gavroche: A fond farewell to the restaurant that changed Britain’s dining habits forever

Michel Roux has announced Le Gavroche is closing early next year. A landmark on the British culinary map, Mike Daw takes a look back at a titan of London restaurants

Evening Standard · Aug 19, 2023

London’s council funding gap is largest of any English region

London’s councils are receiving 17 per cent less funding than their ‘relative estimated need’

Evening Standard · Aug 19, 2023

Completedworks turns its reductionist vision to bags

British jewellery and homeware brand Completedworks’ Anna Jewsbury puts handbags under her sculptural lens

Wallpaper · Aug 19, 2023

Culture Secretary and BBC’s Ros Atkins among 54 banned from entering Russia

Russia’s Foreign Ministry said the sanctions were ‘in the context of London’s unrelenting military support for the Kyiv neo-Nazi regime’.

The Independent UK · Aug 18, 2023

When tram lines were ubiquitous in old Madras

Madras Tramway Co. formed in London (1885) to lay 18 miles of track, 1st tram ran (1895), people paid 6 paise/mile, employees struck, appeal for women’s seats, closed (1953), T.R. Lakshmi Narayanan (83) recalls his childhood experience.

The Hindu · Aug 18, 2023

Sugar Prices Fall as the Global Supply Situation Improves

Oct NY world sugar #11 (SBV23 ) on Friday closed -0.24 (-1.00%), and Oct London white sugar #5 (SWV23 ) closed -7.80 (-1.12%). Sugar prices Friday posted moderate losses on negative carryover from Thursday when Conab raised its Brazil 2023/24 sugar production estimate to 40.9 MMT from an April forecast...

Barchart · Aug 18, 2023

Cocoa Prices Fall Back as Risk Aversion Sparks Long Liquidation

Sep ICE NY cocoa (CCU23 ) on Friday closed -47 (-1.38%), and Sep ICE London cocoa #7 (CAU23 ) closed -24 (-0.88%). Cocoa prices Friday closed moderately lower as a slump in global equity markets sparked risk aversion to asset markets, fueling long liquidation in cocoa futures. On Thursday, NY...

Barchart · Aug 18, 2023

Man who travelled from Yorkshire to London to attack Jewish people sentenced

Abdullah Qureshi, 31, travelled from Dewsbury to Stamford Hill in east London where he attacked three passers-by, a court heard.

The Independent UK · Aug 18, 2023

Horror as three men stabbed near south London retail park

One teenager was found wirh lacerations to his leg

Evening Standard · Aug 18, 2023